Bergenline Avenue station explained

Bergenline Avenue
Style:NJ Transit
Address:Bergenline Avenue between 48th and 49th Streets
Borough:Union City, New Jersey
Coordinates:40.7821°N -74.0219°W
Owned:New Jersey Transit
Platform:1 island platform
Tracks:2
Connections: NJ Transit Bus:
Bicycle:Yes[1]
Accessible:Yes
Zone:1
Opened:[2]
Pass Year:2006
Passengers:325,520
Pass Percent:0-->
Mapframe:yes
Mapframe-Custom:
Shape:none
Line:none
Marker:rail-light
Marker-Color:
  1. 000
Zoom:14

Bergenline Avenue is a station on the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail (HBLR). The intermodal facility[3] is located on 49th Street between Bergenline Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard in Union City, New Jersey, near its border with West New York and North Bergen.[4] The station is the first and only completely underground station on the network and opened for service on February 25, 2006.

Platform layout

Bergenline Avenue is the only stop in the HBLR system with an underground platform. Located 160 feet below the Hudson Palisades in the former Weehawken Terminal tunnel of the West Shore Railroad,[5] it is reached by elevators traveling from street-level entrances located just north of bus bays.[6] The station was designed by FXFOWLE Architects.[7] The four porcelain enamel on steel murals that adorn the complex are entitled Between Manhattan and Meadowlands, and were created by Maria Mijares.[8] [9] [10]

GStreet levelExit/entrance and buses
MMezzanineElevators
P
Platform level
width=100Southboundwidth=500← toward Hoboken (Port Imperial)
← toward West Side Avenue (Port Imperial)
Island platform, doors will open on the left or right
Northbound toward Tonnelle Avenue (Terminus)
toward Tonnelle Avenue (Terminus)

Vicinity

Bergenline Avenue is the main shopping district in North Hudson. Just over the city line it narrows from a two way thoroughfare to a narrower one way avenue heading south (with New York Avenue one block west used for northbound travel). The Bergenline Avenue Commercial Historic District, listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places, continues to 32nd Street.[11] The Hudson County Community College maintains a location next to the station complex on Kennedy Boulevard,[12] with Flower Hill Cemetery across the street. Grove Church Cemetery[13] and North Bergen Town Hall[14] are few blocks south on the boulevard.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bergenline Avenue Station . July 5, 2023 . . en-US.
  2. NJ Transit Announces Grand Opening Date for New Light Rail Stations . February 2, 2006 . December 27, 2017.
  3. New Jersey Transit, Hudson County Bus Service Changes, Effective April 8, 2006, Web site: side 1 . January 30, 2010 . June 20, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070620155640/http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/sf_bu_schedules_bus_side1.pdf . dead .   and Web site: side 2 . January 30, 2010 . June 20, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070620155644/http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/sf_bu_schedules_bus_side2.pdf . dead .  
  4. Book: Hudson County New Jersey Street Map . Hagstrom Map Company, Inc. . 2008 . 978-0-88097-763-0.
  5. http://pubsindex.trb.org/view.aspx?id=700173 Weehawken Tunnel
  6. Design and Construction of the Weehawken Tunnel and Bergenline Avenue Station for the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail Transit System . Berliner, Harvey L . Campo David, W. . Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc. and New Jersey Transit . Dickerson, Charl . Mack Glenn . May 18, 2011.
  7. http://www.fxfowle.com/projects/59/bergenline-avenue-tunnel-station/ FXFOWLE – Bergeline Avenue Tunnel Station
  8. http://world.nycsubway.org/us/hudson-bergen/ HBLR descriptions at NYCSubway.org; Accessed January 9, 2010
  9. http://www.stationreporter.net/westside.htm "Tonnelle Avenue to West Side Avenue" Station Reporter; Accessed January 9, 2010
  10. http://www.mariamijares.com/public.htm Public Art gallery at Maria Mijares' website
  11. http://www.state.nj.us/dep/hpo/1identify/lists/hudson.pdf NJ State Register of Historic Places in Hudson County
  12. http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2009/02/hudson_county_community_colleg.html North Hudson Center
  13. http://www.grovereformedchurch.org/index.php Grove Church
  14. http://www.northbergen.org/North Bergen Township website